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NOTES ON CERTAIN GEOMETRIDvE, WITH A NEW 

 BYSSODES FROM FLORIDA. 



By A. R. Grote. 



I offer the following notes on species from the East, described 

 originally before the publication of Dr. Packard's Monograph. 

 The discovery of a member of the tropical genus Byssodes of 

 Guenee in Florida is interesting and, I believe, new. 



Selenia Kentaria, G. & R., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. I., PI. I., 



fig. 5-6. 



The female of this fine species was discovered by Mr. C. T. 

 Robinson at his country place in Kent County. I am not sure 

 where this typical specimen now is ; it is, perhaps, in the Central 

 Park collection. Dr. Packard figures a male specimen, pi. 12, fig. 

 26. Whether there is a third species oi Selenia, as might be sus- 

 pected by Dr. Packard's two descriptions, I have no material to 

 decide. Walker's AlcipJiearia is quite distinct, by its straight 

 lines, from Kentaria. Probably to the $, figured by him, and 

 which I have never seen, Dr. Packard has given the MS. name 

 Violasceus, diS would appear from page 525 of his Monograph; 

 he evidently intends our species from his remarks. I have not. 

 seen the type since description. As Dr. Packard does not ac- 

 knowledge it, I judge it did not go to him with the rest of the 

 material sent him for his Monograph, being probably collected 

 later. Our figure is colored in most copies, and represents the 

 female type, which was fresh from chrysalis, in two positions. I 

 do not think there can be any doubt as to the species, which 

 appears early in the year, and is hitherto rare in collections. 



Enuropia Textrinaria, G. & R., Ann. N. Y. Lye. N. H.,. 

 PL 15 A, fig. 6. ^. 



Our type went to Dr. Packard. This species is " tailed," and 

 cannot bt^ confounded with any other from its ornamentation and 

 shape of wing. Our figure is colored. Dr. Packard figures the 

 larva and pupa from a drawing by Abbott, who gives the food 

 plant as Uiidaria perfoliata. 



Endropia Homuraria, G. & R. 



The type maybe in Central Park collection or in Philadelphia. 

 It is important, perhaps, because Dr. Packard refers the moth to 

 Diiaria, which seems quite wrong. He does not quote our type. 

 Prof. Lintner showed me a specimen of Honniraria collected by 

 Mr. W. H. Edwards in West Virginia. It is allied to HypocJiraria, 

 somewhat heavier, and more intensely colored, intensely fer- 

 ruginous and brightly colored beneath. The wings are shaped as 

 in HypocJiraria, not as in Duaria, as I recollect the type. The 

 fore wings have the costa straighter, and appear narrower than in 

 either of its allies. I was quite convinced that the moth was 

 neither HypocJiraria or Diiaria, but have had no series to exam- 



